From https://youtu.be/ktE_3PrJZO0?t=1608

  • glimmer_twin [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    That nut job MacArthur wanted to drop fucking A-bombs (multiple!) on Chinese troops in Korea.

    • PresterJohnBrown [any]
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      4 years ago

      He wanted to nuke the entire east coast of China with literally dozens of a-bombs.

      Edit: Read about this crazy otherfucker https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/one-americas-most-legendary-generals-had-terrifying-plan-win-21563 "“The enemy’s air would first have been taken out. I would have dropped between 30 to 50 tactical atomic bombs on his air bases and other depots strung across the neck of Manchuria from just across the Yalu at Antung (northwest tip of Korea) to the neighborhood of Hunchun (northeast tip of Korea near the border of the USSR).

      “That many bombs would have more than done the job! Dropped under the cover of darkness, when his planes were in for the night, they would have destroyed his air force on the ground, wiped out his maintenance and his airmen. …"

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relief_of_Douglas_MacArthur#Provoking_China

      • Young_Lando [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        These psychos were committed to ruling the Earth, even if it meant turning vast stretches of it into radioactive craters.

        • PresterJohnBrown [any]
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          4 years ago

          And then they realized they could rule the Earth without firing a shot with... NEOLIBERAL~ CAPITALISM~

          The New World Order declared global victory when the Soviet Union fell.

    • star_wraith [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      And to this day, MacArthur is worshiped by those Tom Clancy-reading silent gen and old boomer nutjobs.